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It was probably a burlesque of ''[[The Rose of Castille]]'' (or ''[[The Rose of Castile]]''), an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe, to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris and Edmund Falconer, after the libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Clairville (alias of Louis-François Nicolaïe (1811–1879)) for Adolphe Adam's Le muletier de Tolède (1854). It was premiered on 29 October 1857, at the Lyceum Theatre, London. | It was probably a burlesque of ''[[The Rose of Castille]]'' (or ''[[The Rose of Castile]]''), an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe, to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris and Edmund Falconer, after the libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Clairville (alias of Louis-François Nicolaïe (1811–1879)) for Adolphe Adam's Le muletier de Tolède (1854). It was premiered on 29 October 1857, at the Lyceum Theatre, London. | ||
| − | The burlesque was originally performed in Brighton, England, on 4 March, 1872. | + | The burlesque was originally performed in Brighton, England, on 4 March, 1872. It does not appear to have been performed much and was not published. |
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| + | More enduring than Edwardes's the play, is a punning riddle about Balfe's successful opera: "Question: What opera is like a railway line (or tramway line)? Answer: ''Rows of Cast steel''"). This first appeared six years after it was premiered in October 1857, but was made famous by James Joyce's use of it in a scene in ''Ullyses''[http://www.jjon.org/joyce-s-allusions/rose-of-castile] | ||
==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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The Rows of Castille is a burlesque by Conrad Theodore Marriott Edwardes ()[].
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The original text
It was probably a burlesque of The Rose of Castille (or The Rose of Castile), an opera in three acts, with music by Michael William Balfe, to an English-language libretto by Augustus Glossop Harris and Edmund Falconer, after the libretto by Adolphe d'Ennery and Clairville (alias of Louis-François Nicolaïe (1811–1879)) for Adolphe Adam's Le muletier de Tolède (1854). It was premiered on 29 October 1857, at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
The burlesque was originally performed in Brighton, England, on 4 March, 1872. It does not appear to have been performed much and was not published.
More enduring than Edwardes's the play, is a punning riddle about Balfe's successful opera: "Question: What opera is like a railway line (or tramway line)? Answer: Rows of Cast steel"). This first appeared six years after it was premiered in October 1857, but was made famous by James Joyce's use of it in a scene in Ullyses[1]
Translations and adaptations
A burlesque of Edwardes's play was apparently written for Roebuck under the title The Rows of Castille.
Performance history in South Africa
1875: Performed in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 25 March, and referred to as a "burlesque written expressly for this Co.". It was played as an afterpiece to David Garrick (Robertson).
Sources
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.354[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rose_of_Castille
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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